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• Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
• To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to…
• Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any…
• Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware…
• Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
• The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,…
• Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
• The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot…
• Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes…
• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
• Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but…
• Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and…

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